Paul Thomas

Responding to the Threat of Violent Extremism (eBook, ePUB)

Failing to Prevent

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

How should we understand home-grown terrorism like the 7/7 London bombings? This is a classic monograph focusing on recent British attempts to 'prevent violent extremism', their problems and limitations, and what lessons this can offer for more effective policy approaches in future. Paul Thomas's extensive research suggests that the Prevent policy approaches, and the wider CONTEST counter-terrorism strategy, have been misguided and ineffective, further alienating British Muslim communities instead of supporting longer-term integration. He argues that new, cohesion-based approaches encouraging greater trust and integration across all communities represent the best defence against terrorism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849665995
• Artikelnr.: 38362987

Autorenporträt

Paul Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in Youth and Community Work at the School of Education and Professional Development, University of Huddersfield. Previously, Paul was Youth Campaigns Officer at the Commission for Racial Equality in the north of England, and worked for a national voluntary sector youth work organisation. His 2011 book Youth, Multiculturalism and Community Cohesion drew on research from Oldham, Greater Manchester to analyse government policy approaches to ethnic cohesion and integration.